Discussion: Nurse/Patient Empowerment As a nurse, you are the individual who has the ability to empower patients in the decision-making process pertaining to their health care. In addition, you are in a unique position to empower your nursing colleagues to improve job satisfaction and use performance indicator data from dashboards to effect social change.In this […]

Quality Improvement Initiative EvaluationProfessional ContextToo often, discussions about quality health care, care costs, and outcome measures take place in isolationeach group talking among themselves about results and enhancements. Because nurses are critical to the delivery of high-quality, efficient health care, it is essential that they develop the proficiency to review, evaluate performance reports, and be […]

For this discussion, review the following two resources from this unit’s Studies section: Core Measures.National Database of Nursing Quality Indicators.As you know, quality indicators are common measures that apply to most patients or disease-specific measures that convey the quality of clinical care for patients with specific diagnoses. Using standard quality indicators to measure and report […]

Organizational Care Goals for InterprofessionalsReflect on the specific care goals in your organization. Think about how they are measured, monitored, and discussed with interprofessional team members. In addition, in your organization, how are goals to improve care chosen, and how do interprofessional team members collaborate in the setting, monitoring, and achieving of goals? For this […]

Mrs. Collins could have an injection in several joints in her body. Mrs. Collins did not have an adverse reaction to the medication, but what if she did? There could have been several errors that could have taken place that led to an adverse reaction. Explain at least 2 errors that could have caused an […]

What are two drugs that you think should be available withouta prescription? In your explanation of why you selected those drugs, include general precautions and possible adverse reactions.  For your citation, you might use articles that show examples of drugs that had been prescription drugs in the past but no longer require a prescription. You […]